đ I read GREAT BOOKS in multiple genres ⨠NOVEMBER WRAP UP (part one)
I have kicked off November’s reading with some really great books, I’ve had multiple five stars before the middle of the month!
BOOKS MENTIONED
The Glass Town Game
Author: Catherynne M. Valente
Inside a small Yorkshire parsonage, Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, and Anne BrontĂŤ have invented a game called Glass Town, where their toy soldiers fight Napoleon and no one dies. This make-believe land helps the four escape from a harsh reality: Charlotte and Emily are being sent away to a dangerous boarding school. But then something incredible happens: a train whisks them all away to a real Glass Town, and the children trade the moors for a…
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The Lost Girls of Willowbrook
Author: Ellen Marie Wiseman
Sage Winters always knew her sister was a little different even though they were identical twins. They loved the same things and shared a deep understanding, but Rosemaryâawake to every emotion, easily moved to joy or tearsâseemed to need more protection from the world. Six years after Rosemaryâs death from pneumonia, Sage, now sixteen, still misses her deeply. Their mother perished in a car crash, and Sageâs stepfather, Alan, resents being burdened by a responsibility he never wanted. Yet despite living…
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A Lineage of Grace
Author: Francine Rivers
The Bible is filled with inspiring stories of unlikely candidates God chose to change eternity. This bestselling compilation in one volume contains five novellas about such peopleâwomen in the family tree of Jesus Christ. Tamar. Rahab. Ruth. Bathsheba. Mary. Each was faced with extraordinaryâeven scandalousâchallenges. But they had courage. They lived daring lives. Sometimes they made mistakesâbig mistakes. And yet God, in His infinite mercy, used them to bring forth the Christ, the Savior of…
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Enola Holmes: The Graphic Novels
Author: Serena Blasco
Series: Enola Holmes: Graphic Novels
A graphic novel adaptation of the hit books that inspired the Netflix film! Sherlock Holmesâ brilliant, strong-willed younger sister takes center stage in this delightfully drawn graphic novel based on Nancy Springerâs bestselling mystery series. 14-year-old Enola Holmes wakes on her birthday to discover that her mother has disappeared from the family's country manor, leaving only a collection of flowers and a coded message book. With Sherlock and Mycroft determined to ship her off to…
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The Pale Horse
Author: Agatha Christie
In the classic mystery by Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie, an elderly priest is murdered, quite possibly doomed by a womanâs deathbed confession and by the secrets kept safely locked behind closed doors of a mysterious local pub. When an elderly priest is murdered, the killer searches the victim so roughly that his already ragged cassock is torn in the process. What was the killer looking for? And what had a dying woman confided to…
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Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
Author: Dusti Bowling
Series: Life of a Cactus
Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a wildfire in Tanzania, but the truth is she was born without them. And when her parents take a job running Stagecoach Pass, a rundown western theme park in Arizona, Aven moves with them across the country knowing that sheâll have to answer the question over and over again. Her new life takes an unexpected turn when she…
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Recorder
Author: Cathy McCrumb
The Consortium is All. But Recorder Can No Longer Obey. Recorder has no family, no friends, and no name. Donated to the Consortium before birth, her sole purpose is to maintain and verify the records. A neural implant and drone ensure compliance, punishing for displays of bias. Suddenly cut off from controlling technology, Recorder tastes what it means to be human. But if the Consortium discovers her feelings, everyone she knows will be in danger.…
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Let me know what you’ve read recently!